#COLTRANE MY FAVORITE THINGS LIVE MOVIE#

But rhythmic dissonance is like harmonic dissonance: itвЂ™s a function of context. This goes beyond syncopation to severe rhythmic dissonance. I did the math, and the accent falls about two ninths of the way through the bar. The band is using a wide swing, so the first offbeat is displaced much closer to beat two than it is to beat one. This is the weakest beat in the bar, and thus the one least likely one to be accented, so itвЂ™s very strange to hear ColtraneвЂ™s band accenting it constantly. The grooveвЂ™s main feature is the accented вЂњandвЂќ of one, the offbeat subdivision between beats one and two. вЂњMy Favorite ThingsвЂќ is the paradigmatic jazz waltz, meaning that itвЂ™s in 3/4 time (вЂњone two three, one two threeвЂќ) rather than the vastly more common 4/4 (вЂњone two three four, one two three fourвЂќ). I made charts of some of the rhythm section grooves, drawing heavily LinnaвЂ™s transcriptions. The best scholarly source IвЂ™ve found on McCoyвЂ™s playing is Sami LinnaвЂ™s dissertation, McCoy Tyner, Modal Jazz, and the Dominant Chord. There has been some useful explanation of McCoyвЂ™s piano parts too. (ItвЂ™s transposed up a whole step for saxophone players.) This one, recorded in Japan in 1966, is almost an hour long.Д¬oltraneвЂ™s solos on the studio version have been well analyzed. HereвЂ™s a good one from 1965, with McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones, the same pianist and drummer who played on the album version.Д¬oltraneвЂ™s performances of the tune got steadily longer and wilder towards the end of his life. As a result, there are tons of live recordings in circulation. вЂњMy Favorite ThingsвЂќ must have had profound meaning for Coltrane, since he performed it constantly for the rest of his life. The public thought so too, because the record was a smash hit, at least by the modest commercial standards of jazz. He also said it was his favorite of his own recordings (p. To the contrary, Coltrane said that he вЂњwould love to have written itвЂќ (p. In his excellent biography, John Coltrane: His Life and Music, Lewis Porter points out that Coltrane was under no label pressure to record вЂњMy Favorite Things,вЂќ and nor did he think the tune was in any way beneath him. Like, imagine if in 2017, Kendrick Lamar had released an avant-garde thirteen-minute reworking of вЂњ YouвЂ™re WelcomeвЂќ from Moana, maybe that would be comparable? I struggle to imagine how it must have sounded back then. The album came out only a year after The Sound of Music debuted on Broadway. John Coltrane, on the other hand, thought very hard about the tune, and radically remade it on his famous album of the same name. When I sang вЂњMy Favorite ThingsвЂќ all those times, I thought about the words, but not much about the tune itself.

#COLTRANE MY FAVORITE THINGS LIVE MOVIE#

I was sitting there going, вЂњOh snap, that song is from this movie too?вЂќ It probably supplied half the repertoire for my elementary general music class. Apparently it was Rodgers and HammersteinвЂ™s last musical, and boy did they leave it all on the stage. I have known many of the songs since elementary school, but I somehow never got around to watching the movie until now. John Coltrane (tenor & soprano sax), McCoy Tyner (piano), Art Davis & Reggie Workman (bass), Elvin Jones (drums).My kids have been watching The Sound of Musica lot lately. *BONUS TRACKS (5-8): NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL 1961 John Coltrane, Tenor & Soprano Sax Mccoy Tyner, Piano Steve Davis, Bass Elvin Jones, Drums. Coltrane played threeВ tunes on that date, вЂњImpressionsвЂќ, вЂњNaimaвЂќ and вЂњMy Favorite ThingsвЂќ), all ofВ which are include here as bonus tracks. John Coltrane was a regular attraction at the Newport Jazz Festival, but his Newport debut as a leader took place on July 1, 1961. Both вЂњMy Favorite ThingsвЂќ and вЂњEvery Time We SayВ GoodbyeвЂќ became regular numbers in TraneвЂ™s concert repertoire. вЂњBut Not forВ MeвЂќ would only remain in ColtraneвЂ™s repertoire for a short time. The swaying waltz rhythmВ is hypnotic, and the exotic sound of the soprano sax, haunting. My Favorite Things was a remarkableВ success for both Trane and the soprano sax. вЂњMy Favorite ThingsвЂќ, the title tune, belongs to Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein IIвЂ™s musical The Sound of Music. 24-Bit masteredДЄlthough seemingly impossible to comprehend, this landmark jazz date made in 1960 was recorded in less than three days, during several marathon sessionsВ that produced still more music that would later be issued on subsequent albums:В Coltrane Plays the Blues, ColtraneвЂ™s Sound, and Coltrane Legacy. State of art john coltrane: my favorite things limited edition - CD packagedВ as a mini replica lp with papersleeve and gatefold sleeve.

Coltrane my favorite things live